Py don’t believe it.
A stunned woman woke up to find an 8-foot python on her chest after it slithered through the bedroom window of her home in Australia.
Rachel Bloor thought her pet dog had curled up on her chest when she felt the weight on top of her, before her husband turned on the bedside light during the heart-stopping incident on Monday night in Brisbane.
“He goes, ‘Oh baby. Don’t move. There’s like a 2.5 metre (8-foot) python on you,’” Bloor told BBC News.
After swearing repeatedly following the rude awakening, Bloor’s next move was to get the couple’s pet dogs out of the bedroom.
“I thought if my dalmatian realizes that there’s a snake there… it’s gonna be carnage,” she said.
“I was just trying to shimmy out from under the covers… in my mind, going, ‘Is this really happening? This is so bizarre,’” Bloor said.
She believes the serpent, a non-venomous carpet python, squeezed itself into the bedroom via the window shutters.
The couple took pictures of the enormous striped snake that had invaded their bedroom.
After freeing herself, Bloor began feeding it back out the window the same way it came in.
“It was that big that even though it had been curled up on me, part of its tail was still out the shutter. I grabbed him, [but] even then he didn’t seem overly freaked out. He just sort of wobbled in my hand,” she said.
Carpet pythons, a common snake found in the coastal areas of Australia, primarily eat small mammals, birds and lizards.
They can reach lengths of up to 13 feet and have also been known to kill and eat domestic cats and dogs.
Bloor puts her calmness during the situation down to her growing up in the countryside, in contrast to her husband, who was badly shaken up by the encounter.
“I think if you’re calm, they’re calm,” she said, adding that it would have been a different story if she had encountered a cane toad — an invasive species native to Central and South America that has caused havoc across Australia.
“I can’t stand them, like they make me dry retch. So if it was a cane toad, it would have scared me,” Bloor said.
